Food Hacks

Another food hack from the farm house kitchen today! We often use sour cream to finish off dishes – on top of stuffed potatoes, or in wraps. I used to find it really frustrating when we had no sour cream left and I wanted it for a meal, so one time I had a go…

Growing up I used to love to study the Womans Weekly Birthday Cake Book. It’s practically a rite of passage for those of us who grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s. These days my kids study the same books each year, while dreaming of their own birthday cakes, and just like my mother, I…

We make a lot of our own preserves with our harvest each year. Jams, sauces, chutney, and pickles (check out my recipe page for links to lots of recipes). Most we use, and some we give away to friends or donate to our local harvest festival. The longer we live here, the more I am…

This time of year is pumpkin picking season (well in the southern hemisphere). Home gardeners everywhere are bringing in their crop, and if you take a drive to the edge of town, I bet you will find a roadside store selling them too. However you get your hands on some pumpkins, here is how to…

A little trick from the farmhouse kitchen this Friday. We have 13 chickens here on the farm. At this time of year they are moulting so we only get one or two eggs a day, but during the summer we regularly get 9 or 10 each day (a couple of our chickens are in retirement…

A simple tip from the farm kitchen for this Friday morning. We bulk buy our plain flour here on the farm, and then make our own self raising flour when we need it. We do this because it saves space, but it is also a great tip to know if you have just run out…

This post first appeared in July 2013. I’m about to be inundated with summer produce so it seemed appropriate to share it again. I’ve had a few people ask me how I freeze the vegetables from the garden, so I thought I would give you my tips and tricks. We get lot of vegetables from…

Last weekend Country Boy and our neighbor slaughtered some pigs so that we have meat over the coming months. Previously we have slaughtered our own meat and made our own bacon, but we have never tried making our own sausages. Recently Country Boy’s father bought a meat saw and mincer so that we could cut…

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I'm a city girl turned farmer's wife, school teacher, ideas woman, and mum to three country kids. Country Life Experiment is all about simple country living, growing and making our own food, and life on our family farm in rural Australia. Join me as I give country living a try. Read more...

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Hi, I’m Jo

City girl turned farmer's wife, school teacher, ideas woman, and mum to three country kids.
Country Life Experiment is all about simple country living, growing and making our own food, and life on our family farm in rural Australia. Join me as I give country living a try. Read more...